CNN 2010-02-25

A year to the day after President Obama signed the massive stimulus bill into law, the administration is talking it up, but where's all that money actually gone? Josh Levs, can you actually breakdown every single cent for us? JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPON

VOA标准英语2009年-Economists: Stimulus Might Create Fewer US Jobs

A group of economists has told Democrats in Congress on Tuesday that it might take longer for the recently-passed $787 billion stimulus plan to generate the number of jobs lawmakers and President Barack Obama hoped it would. House Speaker Nancy Pelo

NDRC Has No Appetite for New Stimulus Package

China's top economic planner says it has no appetite to create any new stimulus packages to shore up the economy. CRI's Ding Lulu explains. The National Development and Reform Commission is playing down the idea of new stimulus. It is meant to cool s

CNN 2009-12-10

Hi, Im Carl Azuz, you've landed on CNN student news. During a speech yesterday, President Obama offered some ideas on how to create new jobs and help out the countrys economy. Offering tax breaks to small businesses, expanding some of the governments

SSS 2008-10-13

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. We all know people who are completely unflappable, able to remain calm in the face of total calamity. Dont you just hate those people? Well, a new study

NPR 2010-01-11

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. China has surpassed Germany as the world's largest exporter after a more-than-17% surge in 2009. Critics in the U.S. and other nations have complained that China's export success was bolstered in part b

VOA常速英语2008年-Bush: Stimulus Plan Will Help US Economy

By Scott Stearns White House 26 March 2008 President Bush says he is confident tax incentives and tax rebates will make the U.S. economy stronger than ever before. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the president and Congress agreed

VOA标准英语2008年-Rice: Current Russian Policies Leading to Isola

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a stern policy speech, said current Russian policies including its invasion of Georgia, have put Moscow on a path to self-imposed isolation and irrelevance. She said Moscow will not achieve its war aim of

voa标准英语2008-European Markets Surge on Stimulus Package Hopes

Following on from Asia, European markets surged on the hope that new stimulus plans will help put the brakes on the economic downturn. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission leader Jose

VOA标准英语2009年-US Economic Recovery Not as Strong as

New economic data shows the U.S. economy grew more slowly than first thought. The US Commerce Department reports the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded at a 2.2 percent annual rate from July to September, down from an earlier estimate of

VOA标准英语2010年-White House Highlights Stimulus Job Cr

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the groundbreaking of a road project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Friday, June 18, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio. U.S. President Barack Obama visited Columbus, Ohio Friday to mark the grou

VOA标准英语2010年-Australians Vote in Close Race

Beachgoers carry a surf-ski past a polling station on Queenscliff Beach in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. Australians go to the polls Saturday to vote in the federal election. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) The polls are open and Australian vot

VOA英语2010年-Analysts: Belarus President Bets on Isolatio

Images of Belarus police clubbing presidential candidates have drawn condemnation from around the world. What does the future hold for Alexander Lukashenko? Western observers called his election to a fourth term on Sunday fraudulent. The Obama admini

VOA标准英语2011--Stimulus Spending Creates Green Jobs in

Sti mulusSpendingCreatesGreenJobsinUSRustBeltTown As President Obama works to build support for his new jobs plan, Congress prepares to debate his bill. One portion of the bill proposes spending to create jobs, much like an earlier stimulus plan put

VOA标准英语2008年-Bush: Stimulus Will Help Economy

By Scott Stearns White House 02 May 2008 The U.S. economy lost 20,000 jobs in April as higher food and fuel costs continue to slow economic growth. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, U.S. President George Bush says tax refunds and b

VOA双语新闻 --- Bush: Stimulus Plan Will Help US Economy

President Bush says he is confident tax incentives and tax rebates will make the U.S. economy stronger than ever before. President and Congress agreed on a temporary stimulus plan last month after rising energy prices and falling property values slow

VOA标准英语2010年-'Up In The Air' Tackles Human Isolatio

Ryan Bingham flies around the county firing people for a living. Most people would loathe such a career. But Ryan, played by the effortlessly graceful George Clooney, thrives on it. Up In The Air is the latest Jason Reitman film. It's about relations

VOA双语新闻2008年：Economic Stimulus Package

President Bush says he is optimistic about reaching agreement with opposition legislators on an economic stimulus package. The U.S. central bank has cut the key interest rate in an effort to boost the troubled U.S. economy and stop a global sell-off

VOA标准英语2010年-Australian Economic Stimulus Also Help

Nearly a year after the global financial crisis peaked, an economic stimulus program that Australia says was key in easing its recession, is getting attention and praise. The program is aimed at energy efficiency and has even had an impact on jobs in

英语听书《白鲸记》第352期

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